If my time isn't free to use as I will it's work. I don't care if it involves zero physical strain or if I'm on a call or in a meeting. Being in a meeting is obviously work.
Your company is trying to get you to work as many hours as possible for as little money as possible, as a working person you should strive for the opposite. As a worker you are selling your labor (of which you possess a limited amount) and any rational actor in a capitalist society should attempt to maximize the gains on what they have to sell by charging the buyer as much as they can for as little as they can. I don't expect a large corporation to strive for less profit because they're "already making more than they did before".
To be clear I don't _like_ this state of affairs but so long as these are the rules ignoring them only deprives yourself and helps your company.
Excellent party/social game. An additional variant we play with is to create an "Oops, All Spies" deck to throw in the random selection. Everyone believing that they are the only one who doesn't know the location inevitably leads to hilarity.
Your company is trying to get you to work as many hours as possible for as little money as possible, as a working person you should strive for the opposite. As a worker you are selling your labor (of which you possess a limited amount) and any rational actor in a capitalist society should attempt to maximize the gains on what they have to sell by charging the buyer as much as they can for as little as they can. I don't expect a large corporation to strive for less profit because they're "already making more than they did before".
To be clear I don't _like_ this state of affairs but so long as these are the rules ignoring them only deprives yourself and helps your company.